No one should even need to take posting this seriously. All you need to do is to not spam, not plagiarize, and don't post useless stuff. That's pretty much it. For some reason people here tend to talk about Bitcointalk as some ultra-complicated thing that you need to study.
For some, the forum is much more than a
"forum", and then we shouldn't be surprised that they have a slightly different way of thinking. Maybe it's just a matter of wanting to advance in the ranks, which have now become more difficult to reach than before, although I don't understand if the OP is talking about his personal success that he achieved with the help of this forum.
Philosophical post. But the problem is that your efforts will not be taken into account by those who are in a hurry. Someone who comes here to learn about bitcoin will rarely spam; they don't care about merit. But when you see that a person, day after day, creates a bunch of unnecessary topics and leads manuals, being an amateur and not caring at all about the answers in his open topic, this suggests that he will soon leave the forum. Since such people always make a bunch of mistakes.
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Few follow the line of greater resistance, and most go towards bounty campaigns or think that by plagiarizing/paraphrasing they will succeed in deceiving someone that they are something they are not. To some extent, I can understand that some members, even though they are beginners themselves, want to help others, although sometimes they exaggerate in this - or what is even worse, they give not only wrong but also very risky advice.
Of course, the golden rule is that you should not believe in anything blindly, but that you should look at most things critically - because even if five people claim that something is true, who is to say that a sixth person will not appear and prove that they are wrong?